6 reasons I’m not thrilled about David Goyer on the Superman movie

1. FlashForward - co-created by Goyer based on Robert Sawyer’s excellent high-concept novel, FlashForward should have been the best show of the past year. Instead you have meandering storylines with no sense of urgency, poor casting, dull scripts and a show that doesn’t play with the consequences of changing the future half as much as it should do. Take poor Agent Gough – he commits suicide to avert the future he sees where he killed someone by accident, and nobody sees this as a sign that the future can be changed.

2. The Blade movie trilogy – while I enjoyed all three movies when they first came out, they haven’t aged well. In fact when revisiting them I can’t help but notice that they weren’t that good to start off with. Plot holes, poor writing, pedestrian direction.

3. The Blade TV series – well, I liked the pilot, at least. I have to give it that.

4. Ghost Rider – no excuses; if your name’s attached to this, even as executive producer, you’re taking a share of the blame and need a good kicking.

5. Batman Begins/The Dark Knight – both admittedly great movies with some story issues, the second is better than the first. It’s also the second where Goyer contributed to the story and not the screenplay, coincidentally.

6. Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD TV movie – it’s bad. Really bad. When David Hasselhoff’s take on Fury is the only redeeming feature of a movie you know you’re in trouble.

Although in fairness, having Death Warrant and Dark City on the resume does earn some breathing room…

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